Faber Castell Pitt Matt Graphite Pencils Review! Comparison with Regular Graphite Pencils
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I'll be testing out this set of matt graphite pencils, by Faber Castell. I've had this tin for a while and forgot to make a video, but here it is now, hooray! So, are these pencils actually matte and not shiny? Will they reflect under lights the way normal graphite pencil does? Today I'm going to find out, by doing a side by side comparison in a full drawing.
Find this set of 6 pencils in a nice tin on Amazon (affiliate links used).
AU: amzn.to/3QSmlAl
US: amzn.to/3QpwXoE
UK: amzn.to/40uvJNN
Music by Epidemic Sound: www.epidemicso...
Find me on social media;
Instagram: / beckytregear
Twitter: / beckytregear
Facebook: / beckytregear
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/beck...
Pixabay: pixabay.com/us...
Email: nightrosephoto@gmail.com
Want to send me something? Here's my PO Box!
Rebecca Tregear
PO Box 6246
Vermont South
Victoria 3133
Australia
As always, thank you so much for subscribing, watching and supporting my channel!
Becky x
I have the next size tin, although there is another set with more pencils and maybe charcoal too. Kristy Partridge mentioned that the matt pencils do require good paper to work. She found that some papers were terrible with them.
I can totally see that - the pencils are much grabbier and I don't think they'd work well at all on super-smooth paper. I'm glad I picked a toothier option!
Thank you s video Becky. I love how the Matt pencils showed on the paper. I think I’ll be getting a set!😊
They work very well when it comes to not reflecting, that's for sure!
As soon as you hit the left eye with the lashes it POPPED everything... inspiring work!
Thank you! It's funny how adding something can completely change the look of a whole picture. Not always for the better, but this time it worked, haha!
The eyelashes look especially excellent!
Thank you! Once I got them in the right place they looked good. Lash-line not eyeball line, Becky! 😂
Hi Becky. Jim from Madrid, Spain (a fellow artist and a New Yorker expat living abroad).
I use the F-C Matt pencils a lot when using a moved media approach with charcoal since the graphite is very Matt and you avoid the weird shine when mixing graphite with charcoal on one drawing.
Cheers from Sunny Spain!
😁👍😎✌
I'll have to try them with charcoal sometime! Hi from Rainy Melbourne!
I bought a 14B of that line to make really dark marks but without using charcoal. It really looks good, I like that pencil a lot 🙂 Thanks for showing the direct comparison so that your viewers can easily see if the pencil would be useful for them 🥰
Charcoal definitely makes a lot more mess, haha! I'm going to have to look for a 14B in both sets I think!
@@BeckyTregear At least for now only FC has a 14B but the difference shouldn't be that strong. I already heard that the stronger blackness of the 14B is "just imagination" 🤣
@@3534538 lol!
very interesting comparison! Them matt pencils sure are nice and I loved this drawing :) oohhh is that a watch tan line I spy? I'm so jealous!! it's hideous here in the UK, we are having so many storms lately, it feels like winter already even though it's only supposed to be autumn, the weather is really getting me down, the winter blues are happening too early this year! I need to move to a desert some where hahaha :D
Thank you! I go walking outside every day, so even when it's cloudy I pick up a bit of colour. But coming into summer it is getting warmer and sunnier (kind of), so yes I've definitely tanned up a bit more lately. You should see my feet; I also have tan lines from my hiking sandals! 😂
@@BeckyTregear oh rub it in why don't you hahaha, I've moving in with you!! Booking my flight right now ;)
@@Azkademon You may want to move back home when it gets into the 40's lol! But right now it's 20 degrees so that's more comfortable.
Fun comparison! Now I'm going to have to look through my stuff and see if I have these!
You must try them out if you do! 😁
Lovely drawing . Becky must be nice being hot ..it has been raining and windy here gray clouds meh ....in the uk. greay video . Happy swatching xxxxx
I like temperate weather best, but it's nice to be in summer clothes for a few days. The weather here changes drastically with waves of heat and then cool changes which drop the temperature sometimes by 20C degrees and so I have both winter and summer clothes out on my chair right now, lol!!
these are absolutely stunning, a fantastic video ❤❤
Thank you so much! 😊
Lovely eye drawings Becky. I appreciate the comparison - new information for me. Enjoy the hot :) of course we are going into winter on the other side of the world....
Thank you! In true Melbourne weather, it was hot for a couple of days and then a cool change came through and I'm back wearing trackpants, slippers and a jumper! 😂
Hi Becky, very cool comparison with the pencils. I have the chunky boyz they are nice, I love chunky pencils..I also love they are water-soluble. Also cool reference pic.
I didn't realise they are water soluble! I looked and mine don't have the little brush symbol on them? I'll have to test that for sure!
Hi Becky, i like both pencils from watching your demonstration. However, i do prefer the looks of the matte better. That said, i have no personal experience with using graphite pencils even though i own some, lol. I really need to get over my fear of trying new things.
I love my original Mars pencils but they're very difficult to film due to their shiny nature. These matte ones will be used in future pencil videos, I'm sure! 😊
Nice review, I've Been trying these Matt pencils out for about a week, and from a purely personal point of view there is one aspect of these I can't get away with. For some reason I thought these pencils would have a "bite" ( if that's the right word) similar to charcoal when being applied. In fact they are the total opposite. They have a very slick almost greasy feel when being used,. I'll persevere but at the moment I'm not convinced.
Interesting...I found them to have a rougher texture when directly comparing them with the Mars Lumographs, which were a lot smoother and more graphitey. Definitely needs more testing!
Great demonstration and comparison. It would be interesting to hear - down the road - if you get used to the 'friction' or if it becomes a nuisance?
Honestly I think I'd use them mainly for filming purposes as I prefer the regular Mars Lumograph ones for their lovely smoothness. But the matte ones are excellent for being under lights so I know they'll come in handy! 😊
I love my set! I bought the larger set because it comes with 14B!!!!
I should have bought the larger set.....lol!
@BeckyTregear you can buy it open stock! At least, at Blick, Jerry's, etc over here in the US you can. I'm not sure if over in your neck of the woods they are sold open stock.
La caja grande lleva también sacapuntas, goma y difumino, lo que resulta muy práctico para usarlos exclusivamente con estos lápices y que no se ensucien con residuos de otros materiales.
Great review, I was curious if the feel of the these pencils was different from graphite. I thought I might try them for sketching but I think I prefer the traction of graphite on paper versus what you described, which sounds familiar from a different pencil I tried and didn't really like.
Glad it was helpful! 😊
I rather like my Faber-Castell matt pencils and I also like Derwent but it was really good to watch this comparison. Thank you
My first tin of graphite pencils is by Derwent - I used them a lot for life drawing classes. 😊
Nice comparison! I wonder if the matte pencils have charcoal in them. It is my understanding that pencils about 8B have charcoal in them (this was info from a couple of years ago). But since they really kept their point, I have no idea what makes them matte. I would think that charcoal would be softer and dull the points quicker.
It doesn't feel like charcoal, but there has to be some sort of matte binder in them...they're very strange, I don't know what it is! A lot less smooth than pure graphite, that's for sure.
Thank you for doing a comparison. I have the Faber-Castell matt pencil in 14B. I used it to make a graphite tracing paper. Used a tracing sheet and went over it with the 14B pencil. Works well. Once I use it I go over with the 14B again so it’s ready to be used again.
Great idea - I will need to look out for the 14B, if it can be purchased as a single pencil.
@@BeckyTregear any pencil would work even a 4B would be goood
Thank you Becky. I love the Faber Castell Matt pencils. Although I’ve recently bought the Blackwing Matt and I love them. Have you had any experience with them. As you’re a more experienced artist I’d love to hear your take on them. Cheers. 😊
Blackwing have a matte pencil too???? Ohhhh I need to find some of those; I love Blackwings so much!! 💜
@@BeckyTregear I don’t want to mislead you, I bought the Blackwing from the Sydney Art Store (they have a special at the moment) and it’s called the Palomino Blackwing Soft Graphite. It’s gorgeous to use. I was thinking of getting the Palomino Blackwing 602, but baby steps. I’m completely confused by Palomino Blackwing versus Blackwing???? Are they the same?🤷🏼♀️. 😊 PS Forgot to say the Sydney ART Store Say the Palomino is the original Blackwing. No reason to doubt them.
Staedtler also has a "black" series. They run from HB to 8B. The 8B is darker and more matt than the Faber-Castell Pitt 14B.
I have black pencils somewhere...can't remember who they are by, but possibly Staedtler, haha. And yes, they're very dark. 😊
Are the Pitt Matt as easy erasable as the Lumographs? 🤔
Yes they erase well enough; I haven't done a full comparison to see if they are better or worse than regular graphite, but they really just seem to work the same as normal pencils aside from being less shiny. I think too much pressure on the paper might make it harder for them to be lifted but otherwise they should be fine. 😄
Great job
Thank you! Tracing and all, lol! 😂
@@BeckyTregear again, there is a difference between those whom can draw and those whom can't. Again, it isn't about tracing. It's about robbing youth of a skill, lying to people and destroying a trade. A), you can draw. B) you didn't lie about it. C) you sure weren't asking a customer to pay hundreds of dollars for something you lied about tracing other people's work lol
@@BeckyTregear maybe I could better explain my distain of tracing and this whom pretend it is acceptable instead of practicing and learning drawing skills this way:
We all have cellphones. Cellphones can do just about everything and anything at anytime. They can read to a text to us and we can talk to text anyone. Eliminating the need to read and write, but we would NEVER tell our children it is okay for them to not learn to read or write because a cellphone could do it for them. Are there times when we are driving, doing dishes, etc when it comes in handy to use these tools, absolutely. However, we wouldn't dare rely upon them solely to get through daily life. And that is my point. I see no difference between telling today's youth is perfectly acceptable to forgo acquiring a skill that would improve their self-esteem, give a sense of achievement, earn them an income etc etc. Whereas those dependant on the printing of images, tracing solely will be our of a job of the lights go out.
Also, if we can't be honest, if the foundations of the community isn't built on honest open communication what Good is it exactly? People whom are dependant upon tracing sure aren't buying massive quantities of supplies to express their creativity. So that hurts your sales as well. I'm not trying to be unkind or hurt anyone's feelings. The goal is to create a better world, not destroy it.
I have the marss lumograph black
I think I may have the black ones too....I need to go and look through my graphite pencil drawer, which has filled right up now, lol.
@@BeckyTregear if you do have some can you tell me the difference between the 8b and the 14b. I don't see the 14b in my michaels but the lumograph black 8b
Thank you, I learnt a lot :)
So did I, discovering how great the matte ones are for filming purposes. 😊
I got the matte pencils a wile back and I really like them! However, I hadn’t done a lot of sketching with out types of pencils, so I really didn’t have a benchmark for comparison. Lovely eye comparison sketch!
I'm glad the comparison was helpful, and also that you're enjoying the matte pencils! 😊